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oh, how beautiful Oh, how beautiful Oh, how beautiful!"

The young woman cries It over and over, near exhaustion and on the verge of deliriousness, marveling at the sight of the approaching ship which Is to rescue her from sure death in the open sea. Slipped into unconsciousness and picked from the edge of a floating remnant of the sunken steamship Pulaski, after having fought the wild elements of the open Atlantic for 3 days and nights, she finds herself awakening on top of a locker In the cabin of the schooner Henry Cameron. There, she is nursed back to recovery and hurries back to her home In Augusta, Georgia.

"I saw a vessel." Rebecca Lamar McLeod writes later in her emotional account of one of the most tragic events of her life, her sails spread and filled her hull pointed black, and a dazzling sun shining on her canvas.

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Fall 1992

The Life of Rebecca Lamar McLeod

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